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Obituary.

CHICAGO. Nov. 4-Dr. Moses Gunn the
eminent physician and surgeon, died early this
morning at his residence in this city. He had
for long time been in charge of St Jose phs
Hospital, and was we'll known in medical circles
throughout the country. In surgery he was es-
pecially skillful. and the list OF operations per-
formed by him under circumstances of doubtful
issue have been for a long time the admiring
theme for the medical journals
MADISON, Wis, Nov. 4.-Hon. Philip L.
Spooner. ST.. father of U. S. Senator John G.
Spooner and P. L. Spooner, ex- Insurance Com
missioner of tho State, died here yesterday.
aged seventy six years He was born in New
Bedford, Mass. and made Logansport Ind, his
home in 1889, where he recognized as a
prominent attorney. He came to Madison in
1859. and followed the practice of law.
SEYMOUR Ind. Nov. 4.-Elkana Cobb died at
his residence near this city, this morning, of
chronic bronchitis: aged sixty-echt years. Mr..
Cobb was of the early settlers of this vicin-
ity. He possessed of large land interests.
He was born in Decatur county, this State,
Greensburg. He was ardent Republican,
and was unfalteriug in his devotion TO the prin-
ciples of his party.
ROME. Nov 4-Cardinnl Pellegrini. the last
member OF the Sacred College created by Pope
Puts TX, Is dead. aged seventy-fve years.
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in this equality of the two great sections of the
Anglo Saxon race, and in their evsr-g wing
affinity that find the best security for peace"
The Standard takes nearly the same view. and
is inclined to poke fun at the English EN- ployed
both by the memorialists and by the President.
1t saws:
But though the style of the memorial pre-
sents an odd mixture of pomposity and common
place. the sentiments to which it gives utterance
are unimpeachabie. 1t is unnecessary to repro
auce them here, nor can we do more than refer
In passing TO more brief and perhaps more bust
nesslke expressions of opinion by John Bright.
LORD w olseley the Marquis OF Lorne and Earl
uranVliie read on the preceding day at the clos
ing OF the American exhibition IN London
ne reply made by President Cleveland to
the British peace and arbitration committee was
isconic and perhaps trife oracular, but he
II somewhat vague hope that the killing of men
may be put a stop by a process of inter-
national arbitration, but even in the few words
pronounced by the President we observe a tone
of exaggeration which seems destined to stult,fv
the utterances of ali those VINO pledge them
selves to abstract principle. If the literary cir
cles of Boston have smiled at the perversons of
the Queens English put into the mouth of Sir
Lyon Playfar. some of the English membe
of Parliament who accompanied musr ike
wise, if they have any culture or ordinary
memories, have experienced of amuse-
ments when they heard President Cleveland
claim for the people of my country that they
boast they exhibit moro victories of peace
than any other nation. For some people history
is very modern, and we suppose the President
thinks the peaceful victories of Greece, of Rome
and os Europe generally IN the age OF the
sidered
cit must not be thought that it is in any carp
ing spirit we indicate blemishes in the otherwise
useful performances of these excellent people;
but when an object avowedly difficult is being
pursued it is greatly to be desired that people
should not be preiudiced against an endeavor to
overcome the difficulty through any exaggera-
ton in the language of those who engaged
in combating it"
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MINOR MATTERS.

Congress Will Make Effort to Stop the
Useless Waste of Natural Gas.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Nov 4-One of the first steps
Congress will attempt to take when it assemblies
will be the control of the use of natural gas in
Pennsylvania Ohio and Indiana and some other
States, where it has heen found in such quanti-
ties to lead to its waste. / am told by gen
tleman connected with the Geological Survey
that reports have been received from Muncie,
Anderson, Marion, and one two other places
in Indiana, and from Findlay, o., which show
that more natural gas is being wasted than
used and that recommendation will be made
for law to prohibit wastage of this valuable
and desirable article of fuel and light. It is
contended by the people at the Geological Sur
vey that Congress has perfect right to legislate
on this subject, inasmuch as the gas comes from
deposits many miles in extent running from
the property of one man TO another, from
county to county, and from State to State so
that when veil is drilled on one mans property
the supply of gas may not only come from n
other mans deposit, but from another State.
The question will bring up full scientific dis
cussion of natural gas in all its bearings and
the geologists will have feast of mental re-
search.
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Experiments with Nitro-Glycerin. Shells

New YORK. Nov. 4.-Yesterday. at Sandy
Hook, Sergt. d. Smolinoff made experiments
in firing ro-elycerine from 100 pound parrot
rified gun, using eighteen pounds of service
powder for shot. The shells used were of
about ninetv-two pounds weight, and were
charged with five pounds of nitro-g lycerine
each. and provided with the inventors
ignitor. The gun was fixed in ordn-
airy cradle and the shots were directed against
a fourteen inch-thick target of wrought
iron. At the first firing the shell exploded on
the impact of the target, making depression
about four inches deep aud disp,acing the target
about three inches Some fragrants of the she'll
were scattered over the fortress, soaring those
inside The second shell exploded, making a
crack in the target about fourteen inches long
and one-fourth of an inch wide and broke two
rivets, one three and half inches aud the other
two and half inches in diameter The third
she'll also exploded, making an impression about
five inches Deep After the three shots the tar
get was found displaced about eighteen inches
and torn off from the wooden base which 1t
was fastened. Up TO this time this target had
stood all kinds Of shots. gelatine filled
shells. The inventor believes that if he could
have had steel instead of iron shells the target
would have been blown to fragments.
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Jenny Lind's Funeral.

London Special.
Jenny Lind's funeral will occur Saturday
afternoon at Malvern and her burial place W i'll
be in the church-yard there, according to her
desire expressed long ago.
called this morning at Mr. Otto Gold
schrnidts town house, No. 1 Morton Gardens,
South Kensington, and received by the old
housekeeper, who has been in Jenny Lind's serv-
ice forty years, and who her maid in
America and London. Her sadness was touch
ing, and she plaintively dwelt upon her old
mistress, not at all as a celebrity, but simply as
a benefactress and good She had
just received letter from Mr.. Goldschmidt
directing her TO show hospitality to several
arriving German friends route to Malvern
The letter asked her to send thither the myrtle
tree, which. according to German custom, Mrs.
Goldschmidt received and planted in a large box
her wedding day. He intended to have it
woven into q funeral wreath and buried with
her. It was shown me-a shrub four feet high,
shickly and delicately leaved. and had evidently
been carefully nurtured. The German super
stition is that when the marriage is happy the
weddiuP-day myrtle thrives.
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ILLINOIS.

Increasing Interest i'm the Testimony in the
Carman Abduction Case.
sDecial to the INDIANAPOLIS Journal.
URBANA, Nov 4.-Increasing interest was
manifested to-day in the Josie Carman abduc-
tion case in the Champaign Circuit Court. The
current of sentiment is strong against the de-
PENDANTS, and their attorneys strove hard to
break the force of the testimony against them.
They especially tried to save Mrs. Shut by
proving her good character. The testimony OF
the abducted girl is hard to break down. A
night session of the court was held to listen to
the closing plea of the prosecution.
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Knew the Gentleman He Hanged.

New York Tribune.
The following story is told by one of the men
in charge of the electric lighting on the train
which carried President and Mrs. Cleveland on
their recent trip in the West, and he asserts it
is a positive fact. Early morning the train
stopped for water at little way station in
Ohio. At the depot was elderly farmer who
showed great curiosity to see the President
Cant see Mr.. CleveandF he asked. NO.
he's asleep and can see him." was the
response. ~ would like much to Mr..
Cleveland" persisted the old man. Sometime
in his tone struck his interlocutor, and he asked:
'Do you know Mr.. Clevelandp mo" respond ed
the farmer, "but was we'll acquainted with a
gentleman he hung in Buffalo some years ago.
The story afterward told to the President,
who enjoyed it heartily.
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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Thomas Wallace, convict in the Essex pen
itentiary at Caldwell, n. j., shot in the
head and instantly killed, Thursday, night, by
one of the guards, while attempting to escape.
The metal semisphere found in the cellar at
the scene of the ST. Louis explosion. supposed
to have been a bomb, was the bulb of hanging
lamp There is no ground for believing the
catastrophe to have been anything but gas ex-
plosion.
At Thibodeaux, La, yesterday, negro striker
named Nose Hughes shot and seriously wound
ed richard Forest prominent planter. hughes,
with $50 of his friends. resisted arrest. and it
became necessary to call out the Opelousas
Guards, who lodged him in Jail
Hearing of Mrs Lille Garrett, charged with
was begun at Spencer, Medina county, Ohio.
yesterday. But one witness was examined
when Mrs. Garrett waived further examination
and was committed to Jail without bail.
Arthur B. Campbell, book-keeper for the Ar
mour Packing Company, of Chicago was
raigned in court yesterday for the EN- beZZlement
of S.. 200 from the company, and sentenced to
two and half years Imprisonment Young
Campbell comes of an excellent family. is thirty
years of age, and married.
Nothing has been heard of David Scott, the
missing member of the paper manufacturing
firm of Vernon Brothers & Co. of New York.
So far the expert accountants find that the firm
will lose about $40, 900 through Mr.. Scott. An
other attachment taken out yesterday
against the Ivanhoe Paper Company, of which
Scott is president.
avenue, a lonely part of Chicago, Police Officer
Keegan found lying dead on his back. with
a wound his forehead, evidently made by
some blunt instrument. The officer had been
murdered while on his beat When found this
morning he still clasped his revolver in his hand
but it had not been discharged. There is no
clew to the murderer
The grand jury of the Memphis Criminal
Court yesterday returned twenty eight bills of
indictments against Wharfmaster p H. Kahr-
mester. The charges are embezzlement and lar
ceny. The amount of his defacations given
in indictments Is 5000 The indictments
charge him with collecting wharfage from Ohio
river steamers and failing to settle with the
city. He is absent from the city.
Patrolman II. Space ffty-s years old
killed himself yesterday at his home, No. 16
East One-hundred- and-twentieth street, New
York. He put revolver in his
mouth and sent bullet into his brain
He had been on the police force since 1861 was
the father of large family Of sons and daugh-
tiers, who are all married and as not known to
have any family or financial troubles.
Albert NJ Brusstar, of Baltimore an extra
lettercarrier, is under arrest charged with the
murder of Michael j. Beisler, imbecile boy.
Bruss:ar went home, Thursday night, under the
influence of liquor, and the noise of some chill
dren playing prevented his going to sleep He
became very angry and beat Beisler ABOUT the
head. He then picked the boy up and threw
him down stairs The boy was put to bed, but
died in short time
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THE FIRE RECORD.
Nashville Business Houses suffer to the E1
q

Nashville Business Houses suffer to the Ex
tent of About $165, 900.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Nov. About 4 o'clock
this morning the building occupied on College
street by Weakley & Warren as furniture
store was discovered fire, and owing TO the
inf1ammable character of the material, the
flames spread rapidly through the building and
communicated with the adjoining buildings.
The entire block from Bank alley to the Western
Union building immense sheet of
flame. The fire department, after desperate eff
forts, succeeded in limiting the devourng element
with the space described. The Western Union
Office was seriously threatened for a while, but
named firms sustained losses: Weakly & War
rem. stock, $50, 600, insured for three-fourths
Atwell & Sneed, furniture dealers, stock. $l7,
600: insurance. So 000 Webb Stevenson 81 Co.,
fourths. The building occupied by Weakly Il
Warren belonged to Judge j. NJ Lea and the
w. w. Fite estate, and was valued at $26 600,
with Sis, 600 Insurance.; the building occupied by
Atwell q Sneed was owned by B. F. Wilson,
and was valued at 10. 900; insured for $40, 00O
Webb. Stevenson e Co. 8 building owned by
E. ". Cole valued at $24. 900 and covered by in
surance. The total loss aggregates about $685.
600 on houses; insured for $43, 900; on stock,
$1O2. 600; insured for about $50. coo.
During the progress of the fire the walls of
the building adjoining Bank alley fell in and
quite number of people are known to be in
jured. probably fatally. Among the
wounded a of j. B. Moore, about fifteen
years of age, skull terribly crushed and will die;
VIM. Steward, sign painter. left leg badly frac-
tured Bradford Nichol hand injured, besides
fireman and a number of others more or less in
iured. Others believed to be covered by
the debris, which the workmen now remov-
ing The telegraph wires in nearly all direc-
tions were burned, and over a hundred telephone
wires DESTROYED
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tlernan this injury proved fatal. The funeral
services were held on Monday at Mount Auburn
NJ E. Church. ard the remains were buried in
the Shiloh Cemetery, near Waverly.
Mr.. Robe was born in Ireland, October, 1908.
Two years afterward his parents, Andrew and
Mary Robe came to this country and settled in
Cumberland county, Pennsylvania. At the age
of ten his mother died. and he was apprenticed
time. On account of bis fathers failing health
the son, John, returned to the farm In 1884
they came to Indiana, and the next year his
father died In 1885 Mr. Robe was married to
Miss Catharine Messersmith, and settled on the
little farm where he resided until bis death,
Mrs. Robe, his wife, having died in April, 1917.
Mr.. Robe was of Presby terrain parentage, OF
.sthe straghtest sect When quite young he be-
came member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, and he oftentimes in his life related his
peculiar Christian experience. While yet young
he was licensed as local preacher. His labors
attended with marked success, and he
filled several appointments as supply. He was
ordained deacon in 1884 and elder in 1855.
Mr. Robe was brother to William Robe, OF
Morgan county, who assassnated at the
time of the late war. Another brother
is Rev. James Robe of Kalamazoo.
Mich. He had accumulated some prop
erty which he disposed of by will,
with Ira T. Gregg and John w. Robe as execu-
tor 6. One-tbird he beQueatned to the Ministers
Aid Society of the S. E. Indiana NJ. E. Confer
ence: ore-thrd to foreign missions, and
third to relatives. Thus another pioneer, who
was full of energy and integrity has passed
away.
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General Notes

WASHINGTON, Nov. Mrs. Cleveland to-day
received from Mr.. Fred Sullivan, postmaster at
Jamaica. through Superintendent Bell. of the
foreign mail service. an elaborate and extremely
handsome fan made at the womans self help in
stitution of Jamaica, of native woods. ferns and
flowers, arristically arranged. In the letter ac-
companying the fan. Mr.. Sullivan says that '.it
Is not intended as present, but a first offer
ing of what Jamaica has to give in return for
the great boon OF parcel post-exchange between
the United States and Jamaica, recently ap-
proved"
Miss Belle Purdeu, of Franklin, Ind, was to-
day gwen 5000 position in the Pension Bureau
under the civil-service rules.
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DEAFNESS AND RUNNING EARS.
Their Rational Treatnaen by DR.. A.
B. Barker.

Science is constantly making discoveries. As
knowledge increases treatment of diseases be-
comes rational. Perhaps greater revolution
has taken place in the science of Medicine than in
Aural Surgery. It is not generally understood that
the EAR is fully as delicate organ the Eye for
many will allow experiments upon this organ by an
ignorant pretender who would reco from any thing
much less serious proposed for the Eye.
Deafness, within itself, is not disease but symp
tom of something producing it. The diseases gener-
ally met with in treating the Inflammation of
the aurcle, of the canal leading the tympanum
lear drum the drum itself, polypus, tumors,
ulcers, Inflammation of the eustachian tube, par
alysis atrophy of the auditory nerve, scrofula,
catarrh skin diseases, etc. Deafness like blind
ness, usually commences in organ. There are
many who deaf in and not aware of it,
while others try to conceal the fact, until from SYM
pathy, both organs become involved which may i'm
pair the health, besides making the patient gloomy,
dstrustful and The majority of diseases
chronic; commencing insidiously, giving
ing of their approach pairing the hearing gradu-
ally that it is not detected until the second stage.
The durability does not depend much upon the de.
gree of deafness, length of standing, of patient
it does upon the source from which it enanates.
OUR RATIONAL TREATMENT consists of the
introduction of electricity gases vapors,
panied by such medicinal agents as each particular
requires together with consti ional treatment.
1t is not attended with any pain or Inconvenience
whatever; be carried at home after inter-
view As evidence of our ask those inter.
ested to investigate the references to be had at
office.
RUNNING EARS.
discharge from the ear, however slight is ndica-
tive Of destructive Inflammation goir g within.
The delicate parts of the constantly bathed in
the foul discharge, and before the organ
of hearing is totally destroyed. This frequently
with children, who often bear pain without
complaining. There is prevailing opinion that the
discharge ought not be stopped that it will nure the
child to do This is grave error the it 10
stopped, the better chance the child will have
gain hearing. Let it continue and you take the
chances of consigning the child to deaf and dunk
asylum, diotic institution, the grave.
This is not overdrawn; for the separated from
the brain by only very thin shell of bone which
membranes of the brain, which death makes
the child idiot. The of many fond parents
who allowed what they thought harmless discharge
from the to continue until it was too late, will
than justify this statement.
When the discharges fully established no
spontaneous (or self need be looked for as the
Inflammation becomes chronic and deep-seated some
times extending to the bone, and even to the brain,
causing fatal results
We positively every case, if necessary,
without seeing the patient, therefore you cannos
come, write for question blank.
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Other Fires.

CINCINNATI. O., Nov. A telegram from
Castalia. village Sandusky, o., says the
business part of the town was burned yesterday
by what is thought be incendiary fire.
John Bixbv loses general store and resi-
dencce $50, 900; other losses make the total 49,,
900. Insurance. about nehalf the loss.
ST.. LOUIS, Nov. 4-The mixing and engine
room. also the planning mill and box factory of
the Mississippi glass-works, were destroyed by
fire this evening Damage, $4,000 which is
covered by 500, 900 insurance the entire
works.
KANSAS CITY Nov 4-The Higgins Cracker
and Confectionery Company's establishments. on
St. Louis avenue, near tho junction of Union
avenue, was burned late to- night. Loss between
SIS 900 and 800, 900; we'll insured
PHILADELPHIA Nov. "A building occupied
by File & Arbet as planning mill, and d. W.
Mudd as a sash, door and blind factory was
burned tonight. Loss. $50, 900.
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The Green Murder Trial.

Special to tho indianapoIs Journal
PERU, Nov. 4.-The examination OF witnesses
70 T the State in the VIM. Green murder case
closed at noon. Some twenty-five witnesses
have testified and were subjected to most Wig
orous cross examination, revealing only triiing
discrepancies and those relating to distances and
the exact time to the killing. The main testi-
mony regarding the killing and the manner of it
is harmonious. The evidence is very damaging
and it is hard to see how Green can combat it on
a plea of self-defense. Interest in the case is
un abated, and the courtroom is constantly
crowded. Mrs Nancy Green, who arrived yes
terday from Hebron, O.. is constantly at her
son,s side.
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GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.

The Victory of the French Ministry the
Rentes Bill DeIusive in Character.
Special TO the INDIANAPOLIS Journal
LONDON, Nov An. Ronvier's victory in the
French Chamber of Deputies on the rentes fund
ing bill is wholly delusive one. in spite of the
apparent strength in his favor. A large num-
Der of the Deputies voted with the government
this occasion who are, general principles.
opposed to the Ministry, and who allege that
they viii reverse their seeming approval of the
Cabinet at the first opportunity. They were
obliged. they say, to support concrete financial
measures, but upon abstract questions will be
found arrsyed against the policy of the govern
ment in every case.
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Found Guilty of Murder.

OTTAWA, Nov. 4-The trial of Geo, Boiler, a
Streator bottle blower, for the murder of a COM
rade, few months ago. was completed in the
Circuit Court in Ottawa yesterday. After q
short consultation the jury returned a verdict of
guilty, with hanging the punishment. The
crime committed last summer. Both Boil
and his victim, Hau. were bottle-blowers
Boiler had been making some violent and in
sul,ing remarks to Hans wife, and upon his
turn home Hau was informed of what had hap
pened, and called Boiler to account. In the al
tercatiou that followed Boiler shot Hau. The
evidence showed that he had several occa-
sions threatened the life OF Hau.
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Cable Notes.

DR.. Wielaud. of Wiesbaden. has been elected
Bishop OF Fulda, to succeed Bishop Kopp, who
has been transferred to Breslau.
The Emperor of Germany is getting better
slowly and may possibly be able to leave his
bed in few days, but nobody believes he will
get entirely well.
Sir. Alexander Delmar, an American engineer,
has recovered, through a verdict in the Court of
Queens Bench, London, Judgment in the sum
of s., 500, from Robert Schielpaum, the London
engineer, for libel, in having published letter
containing disparagine statements